Chiba Miku

"Good evening. I'm Chiba Miku. I like cats."

- Miku's catchphrase

Miku Chiba is one of the current candidates for AKB0048's 155th generation draft.

She is also known by her nicknames Miku (ミク) and NekoMiku (ねこみく); the latter comes from her love for cats. Miku is known for being quite a tsundere and a dedicated Kashita Miyagi fan. Aside of that, she enjoys spending time in the central city of Akibastar and watch TV. For some reason, she tends to stay out ridiculously late.

Appearance
Miku has fluffy, brown hair. The root of her hair is hazel, but the colour gradually changes to chestut. She commonly wears her hair in two twintails that are held with a pair of ribbons. She has a fringe that makes her head appear very circular. Miku's eyes are rosé coloured and include three heart-shapes lines; two cross above eachother. She also has those lines on her hair. She is quite small for her age and a bit chubby; she appears younger than she is - mainly due to her height and style.

Miku's style varies a lot. After becoming an idol, she started to buy clothes that are very cute and lolita-styled, albeit her favourite colours, brown, beige and orange still are very prominent. Her make-up has changed similary too.

Previously, her style was different. Among other things, she was heavily influenced by current fashion trends and her aunt which lead to her having a distinct style at young age. She used to wear a lot of velvet, (fake) leather and black colours.

The amount of clothes she has has grown ridiculously large. She always carried headphones or earpods with her to listen to music. She spends a lot of time with preparing her outfits and make-up every day, and is often told to be very cute. She does, however, not like that style as much as her old style.

Personality
Miku is confident into her opinion and generally heads the belief that it's correct. Despite trying to be calculating and clever, she often falls into traps that she builds on her own. She is very proud onto herself and whatever she has achieved. Miku is, as well, a very dedicated fan and heads strong dislikes towards others who do not think the same.

Skills
Miku has been very vague about her hobbies. She somewhat is interessted in cooking because no one knows how to make good Vegan meals, but aside of it being practical, she has little interest in it. She knows how to cook several Vegan receipts.

She enjoys helping at animal homes and similar places and several times has been seen working with a chariety. She is often seen helping in a local animal sanctuary. She knows a lot about pets.

Aside of that, Miku spends a lot of time with watchign TV and surfing on websites such as tumblr. She also loves shopping; for some reason, she seems to have enough money to do so. She knows a lot of Vocaloid songs and producers due to being very active in the fandom.

Despite her lack of obvious hobbies, she is staying out ridiculously late but is fine with the lack of sleep. She has a few very random knowledge such as tarot and how to perform a tea ceremony from short passions. She knows how to skate board and often does so.

Chronology
Miku was born on Baltistar; as a daughter to a government administrative and a house wife. Her family wasn't extremely high up, but high enough that she was able to watch entertainment online without needing to worry as long as she kept quiet. She grew up quite happily and grew used to her situation, even though her parents were nearly about to divorce due to several affairs on both parents' side. While casually lying about disliking entertainment to give her father the chance for promotions, she became a fan in secret; she didn't have a particular favourite. Miku's greatest achievement used to be access to music instruments.

SC0123 - SC0125
In SC0123, AKB0048 hold a guerilla live on Baltistar - not too soon after the 151st Generation debuted. Once she learned of the event, she and a few friends decided to attend. The event itself was ambushed by the DES - Miku hadn't been too afraid, up to the point where she was nearly shot by a DES soldier and saved in the last second by Kashita Miyagi. Miyagi soon became her favourite member, but on the other hand, her presence at the event had been confirmed and her father was arrested for this. Knowing that their family now was in danger, Miku's mother prepared an escape of herself and Miku to her sister who lived on Akibastar, leaving her husband behind for now. They managed to and Miku started attending a middle school on Akibastar (sadly not Infinity Academy; she hadn't been able to transfer there). Her mother, who now had quite large debts from their escape started working in her aunt's night club which was her main source of income and quite popular. She got used to live on Akibastar quite quickly and eventually became a strong AKB0048 fan, attending many of their concerts and events.

SC0126
In April SC0126, Miku was the one to upload the video of Miyagi flatlining.

Ethymology
Chiba is written as. can be translated as thousand and as leaf.

Miku is written as which means future.

Her nicknames are derived from her name.

Quotes

 * "Good Evening. I'm Chiba Miku. I like cats. " - Miku's Stage Introduction Catchphrase

Trivia

 * Audition Song: Sorezore no Senjou
 * Hobbies: Music, hanging out in the central city, shopping, TV, skateboarding.
 * Penlight Colour: Orange
 * Blood Type AB+
 * Her favourite Vocaloid producer is 39P.
 * Her colour sheme is inspired by the Pokémon Eevee.
 * On meta level, she has various titles and nicknames.
 * Cat Widow
 * Tumblr Vegan
 * Miyagi / Hatsune Miku Wannabe
 * Burned
 * Her original name was Chiba Kaori (千葉　かをり).
 * Her given name uses the same kanji like Asami Mirai's name, but is pronounced differently.
 * Miku is jokly called the parallel version of #OnlineStar Sakaki Mai's daughter.
 * Considering the fact that #OnlineStar is set in 2138 AD, but Mai's daughter is born in the future, and that AKB0048 is roughly set around 2175, it's actually possible.
 * Her father's name is Ren. During the story of #OnlineStar, Mai eventually is in a relationship with a character named Ishikawa Ren.
 * Notably, her aunt and Mai's cousin both show a similar personality.
 * For an unknown reason, Miku rarely uses her SNS account.
 * In Miku's house, at least thirteen cats live. One of them, Percy, came with Miku from Baltistar. The others belong to her aunt.